Woodpecker $35, Saleshandy $36, Snov.io $39, Smartlead $39, Instantly $47, Hunter $49. All published monthly, all self-serve, all read on the vendors' own pages between 6 and 11 August 2026.
That is the list. The useful part is what none of the six is.
The filter, so you can check the work
- A published monthly price under $50, read on the vendor's own page rather than an aggregator.
- Buyable without a sales call. 108 of the 264 tools in this directory fail this one alone.
- A free tier or trial substantial enough to evaluate on, so the price can be tested before it is paid.
| Tool | Entry | Free tier | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodpecker | $35/mo | Yes | 2026-08-06 |
| Saleshandy | $36/mo | No | 2026-08-07 |
| Snov.io | $39/mo | Yes | 2026-08-07 |
| Smartlead | $39/mo | No | 2026-08-11 |
| Instantly | $47/mo | Yes | 2026-08-06 |
| Hunter | $49/mo | Yes | 2026-08-07 |
None of these is an AI SDR
Every one of the six does one layer of the motion. Hunter and Snov.io find addresses. Woodpecker, Smartlead, Saleshandy and Instantly send sequences and manage deliverability. Not one of them decides who to contact, writes something worth reading, or handles a reply that goes off script.
So the honest entry cost is not $35. It is a finder plus a sender, which is roughly $75 to $90 a month, and then your own time doing the part the category names itself after. The full-stack agents that do try to do all of it start around $250 a month and sign considerably higher.
What cheap actually costs
The meter is where the entry price stops being the price. Sending tools bill by mailbox or by contact, finders bill by credit, and a list of 5,000 contacts consumes credits at a rate the plan page does not model. Read what one credit buys before you compare two entry prices.
The second cost is deliverability, and it is the one that ends programmes. Practitioners report cold email reply rates of roughly 2 to 5% in 2026, down from double that a few years ago, and the diagnosis they give is list quality and offer rather than tooling. A cheaper sender does not fix either.